Chair seat



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In uenior Patented May 10, 1932 UNITED STATES RALPH CURGIO, F GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS CHAIR SEAT thereby materially adding to the retail cost to such an extent as to render the cost almost prohibitive to average purchasers.

The purpose of the present invention 1s to provide an artificial or imitation replica which is characterized by a conventional shaped wooden frame and a composition inlay so formed and mounted as to provide a complete seat which possesses all of the appearance and durable characteristics of the original styled rush-seated chair bottom.

Otherwise compared, it may be recalled that the original rush-seated bottom, to be P of a genuine character, is made up of many parts fitted together and an expensively wo'ven rush cushion-forming portion the latter details being of general cruciform configuration in top plan view.

In contrast, the artificial seat constituting the novelty of this application is formed from a solid orrone-piece mortised base board and a composite inlay possessing all of the attributes and characteristics of the genuine seat.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a top plan view of the solid or one-piece board from which the wooden base is developed.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the structure seen in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an edge elevation thereof. Figure 4 is a top plan view of the complete artificial or imitation replica seat.

Figures 5 and 6 are detail sections on the lines 55 and 66 respectively of Figure 4. 5O Figure 7 is a fragmentary perspective View Application filed October 16, 1930. Serial No. 489,192.

of a portion of the composition or compounded inlay.

In Figures 1 and 2, the reference character 8 designates the solidone-piece wooden baseboard. This is of a conventional configura- 66 tion in outline. On the top are indicia lines or markings 9 so charted as to mark off that portion of the board to be mortised. This marked portion 9 isgouged out to a uniform depth to form a cruciform recess or mortise 10. On the bottom are additional marked areas 11 which are also gouged out toaccommodate the extension end portion of the sheet-like inlay 12.

This inlay is of a composite nature. It is understood however,'that the seats to be thus manufactured are neither a geniune rush-seated chair nor is it a composition seat that can be tacked on to a new or old chair or any other surface as the seat provided in similar prior art devices. The article developed in accordance with the present practice of manufacture is characterized by the mortised solid wooden base and the flexible composition inlay which is developed from a combination of ulp. After the proper mixture is attained in the manufacture, it is stamped out with a die and heated to a certain degree of rigidity and hardness allowing the edges to retain sufficient flexibility sothat they may be a er cotton and rush 7 turned under the seat as indicated at 13. This composition of matter thus formed is secured by an appropriate adhesive to a flexible fabric backing sheet 14 which in turn is indirect contact with the bottom of the recess and is glued or otherwise fastened thereto.

When the article is manufactured, and the product is finished with the proper die used 9E in making, Ican cause the finished product to look so nearly'like a genuine rush seated chair that it will take more than an artist to distinguish between them. The fact that the seat to be, manufacured must be manufactured with such nicety of detail that it will fit exactly within the gouged out or mortised portion of the wooden seat makes it something entirely new and a revelation in the prior art as compared to any Similar prior art devices with which I am familiar.

I also wish to emphasize the following features: This is something entirely new, in that the wooden seat and the composition seats are component parts and must be fitted together by a delicate operation. As a substitute for the genuine rush seated chair it will more closely resemble the genuine rush seated chair than anything that has yet been made.

In the making of this chair the expense of the finished product has been cut to a point that will allow a great saving in the manufacture of this article.

The seat devised is not one devised for the purpose of repairing old seats or applying it to any surface desired, but can be applied only after a complete operation in the manufacture of a new seat.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the invention relates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the invention after considering the description in connection with the drawings. Therefore, a

more lengthy description is regarded as unsheet including integral extensions disposed,

around the front and side edges of the board and having their free end portions secured in the second named recesses.

2. A chair bottom comprising a board having recesses in its front and side marginal edges and further having recesses in the front and side marginal portions of its lower side communicating with the edge recesses,

said board still further having a recess in" its upper side having extensions communicating with the edge recesses, and a flexible sheet disposed in the third named recess, said sheet including integral extensions disposed around the front and side edges of the board and having their free end portions secured in the second named recesses, the sheet extensions being disposed in the extensions of the third named recess and in the edge recesses, the third named recess further having a'rearward extension terminating in spaced relation to the rear marginal edge of the board, and another extension formed integrally with the sheet and disposed in the last named recess extension and secured therein.

3. A chair bottom comprising a board having recesses in its front and side marginal edges and further having recesses in the front and side marginal portions of its lower side communicating with the edge recesses, said board still further having a recess in its upper, side having extensions communicating with the edge recesses, and a flexible sheet disposed in the third named recess, said sheet including integral extension-s disposed around the front and side edges of the board and having their free end portions secured in the second named recesses, the sheet extensions being disposed in the extensions of the third named recess and in the edge recesses, the third named recess further having a rear: ward extension terminating in spaced relation to the rear marginal edge of the board, and another extension formed integrally with the sheet and disposed in the last named recess extension and secured therein, the second named recesses terminating in spaced relation to the front and side edges of the board.

4. A chair bottom comprising a board having recesses in its lower side extending thereinto ii'rom its front and side marginal edges and terminating in spaced relation to said front and side marginal edges, said board further having recesses in its front and side marginal edges communicating with the first named recesses, the board still further having a recess in its upper side having extensions communicating with the second named recesses and further having an extension terminating in spaced relation to the rear marginal edgeof the board, and a flexible, composite sheet disposed in the last named recess having its upper face substantially flush with the upper side of the board, said sheet including integral extensions extending around the front and side edges of the board in the first named extensions of the third named recess and in the third named recesses and terminating in and secured in the first named recesses, said sheet further including a rearward, integral extension disposed in the second named extension of the third named recess and secured therein.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

RALPH GUROIO. 

